UPPER CLASSES Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˌə-pər-ˈklas

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as in aristocratic

of high birth, rank, or station upper-class boys who had an entrenched sense of entitlement

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upper class

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noun

as in aristocracy

the highest class in a society a school founded to educate the children of the upper class

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Adjective

These were professional, white, middle- and upper-class evangelical women from suburban congregations. —

Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026 Daniel Cady, who served a term in Congress, delighted in his daughter’s precociousness, though her particular kind of aggressive intelligence was not encouraged among women of their upper-class milieu. —

Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026

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But, by the beginning of the Gilded Age in America in the 1870s, the sartorial code became the upper class’s go-to for the opera, debutante balls, and any of the fancy-dress parties thrown by socialites of the day. —

Vogue, 27 Mar. 2026 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the coastal city of Mar del Plata thrived as a summer playground for Argentina’s upper class. —

Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for upper-class

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Gentile da Foligno in Perugia Italy was one of the few regions in Latin Christendom where physicians organized into guilds in the fourteenth century and thus routinely treated the general populace, rather than merely the wealthier mercantile and aristocratic classes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
The couple, who went public with their relationship in 2024, swore eternal love in Arizona during a very intimate ceremony away from English castles and aristocratic residences.

— Laura Scafati, Vanity Fair, 19 May 2026